The new year always starts slow, especially when it comes to catching up on the old year. It’s been a very exciting year what with the election cycle and all the political news to read, to the point that I’ve let myself fall way behind on the exercise science news. So it comes as aRead More
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Real News: January 2016 Creatine Supplements: For Bones, Not Just Muscles
April 2016 Can Creatine Supplementation Boost Bone, Too? What if you could get bigger, stronger, more powerful muscles by adding a supplement to your diet that would also increase bone density? Wouldn’t it be worth a few cents a day? A Canadian study tested whether or not, based on the possibility that creatine supplementation, shownRead More
Core Exercise and Athletic Injury
I’ve been real busy of late so while I’ve kept up my readings, I have not kept up my blogging. Fortunately, tho, I came across this piece in the NY Times: Vexing Rise in Oblique Injuries, and Little Explanation I say fortunately because we in the fitness world, as this article alludes to, believe thatRead More
News to You’s Guys
Being from Philly, I had to adapt some of my dialect once I settled in nashville 41 yrs ago. for one thing, I stopped referring to the fuel you put in cars as ‘gaz’ since someone pointed out that it’s spelled ‘gas’. For another, ya’ll is a better way to pluralize you compared to you’sRead More
Breast Cancer, Lymphedema and Weight Training
So, let’s consider the many reasons to NOT exercise: No time, inconvenience, don’t like it, hurts, boring, have to shower after, work/family/other obligations, too out of shape, sick….the doctors said I shouldn’t/can’t. Whoa! What the hell kind of doc says you should not exercise? Anathema! Sin! Short-sighted! That is the case for some with medicalRead More